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Freed Palestinian Prisoner Vows to "Sacrifice" Her Life
(Telegraph-UK) Adrian Blomfield - An unsuccessful suicide bomber released from prison on Wednesday vowed to fulfill a childhood ambition by "sacrificing" her life for the Palestinian cause. As she returned to her family home in Gaza, Wafa al-Bis insisted she would seize any opportunity to mount another suicide mission and encouraged dozens of cheering schoolchildren to follow her example. In 2005, she tried to blow herself up at an Israeli hospital where she had been given permission to seek treatment for burns she sustained in a gas tank explosion. She was discovered with 22 lbs. of explosives sewn inside her underwear, but the detonator malfunctioned. Bis' mother Salma said, "This is Jihad, it is an honorable thing and I am proud of her."